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by gw 13y ago
Really an odd way to show you are for differing viewpoints, to inoculate "prospective watchers" by opening the floodgates to a host of disparate subjects that have nothing to do with the topic at hand, all the while winking and nu
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by gw 13y ago
He did speak specifically about BI. I'm not sure what you're talking about.
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by gw 13y ago
Murray Rothbard called this "probably the single most disasterous economic idea ever invented". He spoke on this topic during a speech on Milton Friedman. It's worth a listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae
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by gw 13y ago
I want to make anonymous networking so transparent and simple that people use it even if they don't care about it. They may still expose their identity through the information they share, but we will all benefit from anonymity being th
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by gw 13y ago
This line of argument has never concerned me, because it is a tautology: If people expose parts of their identity in Nightweb, then parts of their identity will be exposed on Nightweb. There is no reason your relationships in Nightweb have
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by gw 13y ago
Your description of the protocol is basically right. All metadata is shared in a torrent called a "meta torrent", which you get via other users as a signed infohash. After querying for the torrent over the DHT network, you begin d
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by gw 13y ago
Yes, everything is encrypted by I2P during transport. However, nothing is encrypted on the disk, as I feel that is a system-level function best-served by full disk encryption.
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by gw 13y ago
You should be able to run the desktop version on OS X. I don't have a Mac so I haven't tried it, but it's just a jar file.
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by gw 13y ago
You could, I suppose, by continuously querying the bittorrent DHT for infohashes.
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by gw 13y ago
No, but that's not a bad idea. I'm not familiar with their plugin system, so I'll have to figure out if it's technically possible. Nightweb currently bundles I2P, but I didn't make any changes to the core or router
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by gw 13y ago
I don't agree that it takes "great effort", because I don't think there is only one standard of anonymity. If you expect to be sought after by a well-financed adversary, of course you should be diligent about what you sh
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by gw 13y ago
I've never quite understood that reaction, but I get it a lot. Maybe I'm getting old (I'm 26), but as a teenager, I spent most of my time on message boards and yahoo groups. That was "social networking" to me, and
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by gw 13y ago
Yes, everyone's metadata (profile, posts, and favorites) are publicly visible. In this sense, Nightweb is anonymous, but not private. I may add private sharing in the future, but it's a complicated thing to implement.
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by gw 13y ago
Yes, it allows multiple identities that you can switch between. It's the button on the far right.
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Show HN: Nightweb, the anonymous P2P social network, now runs on the desktop(nightweb.net)
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by gw 13y ago
This is complete misinformation. Even Java apps on Android are first compiled to JVM bytecode, and then converted to Dalvik bytecode using the dx tool. Clojure and Scala go through the exact same process that Java does in order to make Andr
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by gw 13y ago
You already can use official Android APIs with alternative languages as long as they are JVM-hosted, such as Clojure or Scala. Asking for API support from external runtimes would be a tall order and a major undertaking, with probably little
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by gw 13y ago
What exactly do you propose Firefox OS apps to be written on in developing countries? Computers that aren't powerful enough to run Eclipse would likely be no better (in price or productivity) than an Android tablet with a cheap Bluetooth ke
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by gw 13y ago
Your imagination may have omitted the possibility of using a Bluetooth keyboard.
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by gw 13y ago
You can write and compile Android apps directly on an Android device. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
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by gw 13y ago
If Google offers official support for a second language on Android, it will almost certainly be another JVM based language like Scala or (my personal dream) Clojure. They can already be used to write native apps, and would allow Google to c
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by gw 13y ago
I remember playing with Gobo several years back. Although renaming system directories makes it a bit more approachable to newcomers, it also makes it less language independent and less recognizable to the users who typically need to use it
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by gw 13y ago
I sit in a small wooden folding chair I bought for $30. People cringe when they see it, especially since I have scoliosis. Yet, I never experience back pains. Maybe doing squats 3-4 times a week at the gym is a better way to back health tha
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by gw 13y ago
Of course a fully-illegal thing will create a larger black market than a partially-illegal thing, but that's only a quantitative difference; the economics of the resulting black market remains then same. As long as they are outside the lega
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by gw 13y ago
Perfect information is impossible, and the information held by an elected body is infinitely less perfect. There is no way they can take into account the subjective values of each person better than the people themselves, so it will always
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by gw 13y ago
I don't assume perfect information; all economic activity bears risk and your choices are guided by your risk tolerance. Sometimes, you make a bad choice and suffer the consequences. Eliminating choices doesn't eliminate those consequences,
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by gw 13y ago
It isn't arbitrary to assert the universality of economic laws -- no school of economics holds otherwise. In fact the entire point of this science is to discover principles that exist in all circumstances. Moreover asserting the difficulty
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by gw 13y ago
Painting all users of unlicensed cabs as "drunk people" may be a helpful way of coloring your argument, but nonetheless if the only advantage unlicensed cabs is speed of arrival, then that is still providing for unmet demand. If the risk of
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by gw 13y ago
I was referring to lower cost (but legal) services. For example, living in a cheaper apartment complex generally is riskier, because there tends to be more crime in the area than there would be in more expensive apartments. This point (whic
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by gw 13y ago
Since the article doesn't get into your purported statistics, I can only speculate as to what you are referring to. People in the U.S. often try to retroactively justify tougher drug laws by pointing to lower crime rates, when in fact often

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